What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[Two_Sheds]

Sowed in the heated prop:
- celeriac
- lavender
- chillies Numex Twilight, Holy Mole, Lemon Drop, Corno di Toro (sweet pepper)
- tomato Golden Gem

In the fridge:
- meconopsis (it needs a period of chilling)

In the cold greenhouse:
- sweet peas (and I moved the germinated cerinthe out there too
- Violetta broad beans
- 40 supermarket garlic cloves into modules
- potted on white Limnanthes

[crazii_c]

Today i sowed some alpine strawberrys for the first time and some broad beans.

[nerdgas]

Managed to find a spare hour this afternoon whilst working from home today so nipped up the lottie and dug another bed and took a few more pics (uploaded into album).

Popped a sweet pot in a pint of water as it was starting to sprout. Probably a variety not suited to our environment as it was from a supermarket but what the hell. Nothing ventured....

[Prince of Durham]

The sheds still there. The ice on the roads to the garden were like glass. I watched with great relish a large man flailing his harms and legs like a windmill, praying for him to go down. Alas a he grabbed a fence and was safe. I must find out who built that fence....

[sagegreen]

Moved some freshly-germinated cayenne pepper seedlings onto a warm windowsill. Picked a bag of curly kale with a few purple sprouting heads. Stood and admired a handfull of blood-red anemone bordeaux flowers that keep coming despite anything the weather can throw at them!

[grahama]

Nearly finished the raised bed area today. I finished breaking up all the 4" thick concrete and paving slabs for the paths round the beds. I now have one arm like Popeye and one like Olive

Raspberry bed prepared and just a final layer of compost from B&Q to add to the beds.

Next the netting and dog guards cos she does like to dig

Graham

[Cosmo and Dibs]

Sowed my first veg seeds this year- Brussell sprouts (Evesham Special). I'm looking for 10 plants.

[sewer rat]

Today,using gravel boards. I raised all 7 of the the raised beds at one of the gardens I work in by 4", dug them all over, removing copious amounts of couch, dandeliions and creeping buttercup as I went, applied well rotted horse manure to those beds requiring it, then drew out a planting plan for the owner, explaining why each bed was to be used for what, given what was grown in it last year and how much manure was applied this year. I then renovated her strawberry bed ready to plant up next week.
The I fed her five horses in the paddocks and brought Jazz, who has a serious gash in his leg that has been getting treated by the vet for what seems like ages, in to the stables for the night - sounds simple to you see Jazz standing next to me - makes me look like a dwarf (I'm 6'2") and is prone to be quite frisky, as he was the evening. Still we came to an understanding - I'd feed him if he stopped trying to kick seven shades of sh*t out of me

[bramble]

Good days work there Rat. Don't know where your energy comes from but would love to have some of it .

[nerdgas]

Dug another bed. Took some more pics and uploaded them.

Potted up my early tom seedlings (Roma VF and Moneymaker).

Potted up Rokita chilli seedlings.

Took delivery of my new shed.

[binley100]

Constructed a patio (well palleted area for sitting) got cold came home.

[jackie j]

Did a bit more digging on lottie no: 1 its now ready for planting in when the weather waarms up. Now need to start on lottie no two. Went to lottie shop and bought pentland javelin seed potatoes I.5kg for £1.80p.

[Prince of Durham]

When will this cold go? I can't take it anymore. Winter is usally my favorite season.

After work I made it to the shed and tacked bits of carpet on the shed walls (inside) to insulate it. I'll pack the spaces with newspaper and old bits of bubble wrap. Still haven't planted anything in the icey North....

[StephenH]

Not today, but in the last few days I've dug a temporary extra bed. It's temporary because it surrounds one of my one-year-old apple saplings (it's square, with the sapling in a small undug square in the middle - I'll have to put in two lines of bricks on opposite sides as stepping-stones to reach the middle, so as not to tread on the beds), and when the sapling reaches full-size it'll throw too much shade, but it'll be usable for this year and maybe next, by when I will hopefully have a lotty. Tomorrow I'm going to dig another temporary bed, an L-shaped one, round two sides of another apple sapling. The main reason for these beds is to accommodate all the seed spuds I've got - far more than I could fit into the permanent beds - but I will also grow other stuff in them, because I've got loadsa different seeds. In all, these new beds, plus the new plot in the front garden which I dug last autumn, will more than double the veg-growing area compared to last year, and I'm also planning things more this year and intending to squeeze more things in by following one crop with another, so I should be pretty well self-sufficient in veg from early summer onwards.

[reetnproper]

On Sunday I cleared my raised beds of the last remaing veggies - parsnip, leeks, spinach and mizuna, before digging them over with our friendly Mrs Blackbird for company (it's cupboard love, well worm love actually ).

Today, I've dug some chicken manure into the raised beds and, as per normal, fed Mrs Blackbird a lovely breakfast of fat juicy worms (I throw her about 1 out of every 4). I still have 2 small beds to do but as it is trying to raining I've decide to leave them and have a coffee and some toast.

Mr Blackbird has now joined the Missus and they are both picking over the beds for stragglers .

Reet
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